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5th October 2016
03:43pm BST

They discovered that Peter Dinklage (Tyrion Lannister), Lena Headey (Cersei Lannister), Kit Harrington (Jon Snow), Emilia Clarke (Daenerys Targaryen) and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (Jaime Lannister) are all paid an eye-watering $500,000 (£392,927) per episode. Take into account that up until now there have been 10 episodes in each of the six seasons and, well, you do the maths.
Stars of Gilmore Girls Lauren Graham and Alexis Bledel topped Variety's survey in the 'Drama' category, each earning roughly $750,000 (£589,367) per episode.
And it gets more outrageous still.
Jim Parsons, Kaley Cuoco and Johnny Galecki, who play Sheldon, Penny and Leonard in the seemingly eternally recommissioned The Big Bang Theory, are paid the big $1m (£786,015) for every single episode of America's beloved and NEVER-ENDING sitcom.
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